Smackdown and Velocity Spoilers
Indianapolis, IN
Conseco Fieldhouse
By: pwinsider.com
I would say all the upper deck was tarped off and it is a far cry from the days when the Fieldhouse would be packed. Even with all the tarped off seats there were still a few empty seats scattered. In the 7 years I have been attending events in Indy this was the smallest crowd ever.
Tapings started of with a Wrestlemania 21 Video
We then are told the following matches will be taped for Velocity
Sylvan def Funaki -Crowd was very into this match, tons of heel heat for Sylvan and Funaki was over like neckbone. Sylvan pins Funaki to get the victory
Josh Matthews and Steve Romero enter the Fieldhouse
LOD def Nunzio/Vito - Crowd was into everything the LOD did. Finish came with the Doomsday Device after the match Vito carried Nunzio to the back in a funny moment.
Hardcore Holly def Simon Dean - Dean told Indy how out of shape they were and Holly said he was going to kick the crap out of him. Holly laid in some massive chops to Dean, with the finish the Alabama Slam.
A WWE 24/7 Commercial Airs
Kid Kash def Scotty 2 Hotty - No reaction for Kash at all, kind of upsetting as NOONE knew who he was. Finish came with the jump moonsault Kash used in TNA that he about broke his neck against Sonny Siaki.
London/Spanky def Regal/Burchill - No reaction to London and Spanky at all. A cool move, Burchill did a standing moonsault on I believe London. Spanky set up Burchill for a flatliner while London did a Pele kick on him for the victory
The aprons were then changed followed by the entrances of Michael Cole and Tazz
Smackdown
Smackdown opened with all the Smackdown superstars in Teddy Longs office and he says that he will name Team Smackdown with qualifier matches tonight. He tells Batista to destroy Edge in the street fight.
First match qualifier Rey Mysterio def Randy Orton to join team Smackdown - At the beginning, Orton made fun of Rey's height, back and forth match until Rey went for the West Coast Pop and Bob Orton tripped him up for the DQ. They beat down on Rey until Matt Hardy made the save and ran off the Orton's
Randy Orton then did a backstage interview saying that the RKO is better than the Twist of Fate and basically planting the seeds for a feud.
MNM then came to the ring for an interview, Melina played up her back hurt from Eddie Guerrero last week, they introduce Michelle from Americas Next Top Model and run her down and start to beat her up until the Mexicools make the save and dance with her. Very Boring Segment.
Bobby Lashley def Orlando Jordan
-They showed a graphic which I think had Lashleys pic as a member of Team Smackdown but he basically squashed Jordan with the Dominator. Crowd LOVED Lashley. He will be a star
Edge confronts Long back stage wanting out of the street fight and Long says its cool with him if its cool with Batista.
Second Match Qualifier Ken Kennedy vs Eddie Guerrero - Guerrero got the biggest pop of the night so far. A lot of stalling in the match but at the end the ref gets knocked down and Eddie goes for a chair but the ref is getting up. Eddie then throws the chair to Kennedy and falls like he got hit. The ref DQ's Kennedy and Eddie is on Tm Smackdown. After the match Kennedy whacks Eddie with the chair giving him a concussion
They then shoot shirts into the crowd
Palmer Cannon comes to ringside for commentary
Mini Pierroth vs. Tony ? - I have no idea who the second midget was but he got beat with a flying elbow drop. VERY BORING.
Edge and Lita backstage with Edge leaving to go to talk to Batista and the Boogeyman pops up behind Lita scaring her to death. Boogeyman got a huge pop.
Undertaker return video then aired.
Edge then confronts Batista and Batista said unlike Edge he doesn't back out of matches and its ON!!!!!!!
An interview with the Dicks was then aired saying they will debut next week and basically did a bunch of penis jokes (didn't these guys wrestle on Velocity?)
Third Qualifier JBL vs Chris Benoit -Very good and long match. Halfway through Booker comes down for commentary. Match ends with Benoit locking in the sharpshooter and getting distracted by Booker only to be hit with the clothesline from hell. JBL is on Team Smackdown.
They then play a Divas Video.
Street Fight Main Event Batista vs Edge - Never starts. As the match begins, Eric Bischoff arrives and says he is there to watch the match, meanwhile Chris Masters locks in the Masterlock on Teddy Long. All of team Smackdown chase him off. Masters and Bischoff take off with all of team Smackdown getting in JBL's limo after them. Back in the Ring KANE comes out to face Batista, when he gets to the ring, THE BIG SHOW comes from the crowd and they do a two on one beat down of Batista, with Edge onlooking. Numerous Smackdown jobbers come out but get destroyed by the two. The show ends with Edge, Kane, and Show standing over Batista.
After the show ends Randy Orton comes down and says he was sorry for not helping but he wanted a title match now. Basically Orton beat down on Batista until a spinebuster and Orton was pinned. About a 3 minute match.
They played off that Guerrero had a concussion and could not help Batista.
So Team Smackdown for Survivor Series is Batista/Lashley/JBL/Mysterio/Guerrero
-Hardy may be worked in there somewhere, he may be in Lashley's place but I swear the graphic looked liked Lashley. Not hearing commentary its hard to tell, the Lashley/Jordan match may have been a qualifier. If someone else who was there can clarify it, that would be great but they could be building for a Orton vs Hardy match.
All in all an OK show, the Raw guys got huge pops coming out.
